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CYCA Member Neville Crichton and Alfa Romeo Reap the Rewards for European Race Win
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CYCA Member Neville Crichton and Alfa Romeo Reap the Rewards for European Race Win
Crichton said it had been a dream run for almost the entire course, which takes the fleet from St Tropez in France to the Italian port of Genoa via the Giraglia Rock off the northern tip of Corsica. We had a good breeze on the beat up to the turning mark near the Porquerolles Islands off the French coast. We had 22 knots at that point and carried a spinnaker or Code Zero all the way to the Giraglia Rock, where there was about 13 knots' wind. We picked up a new breeze and reached towards Genoa. The wind dropped and we parked up for almost three hours before we got the new shore breeze to get us across the finish. Full Story »
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